Contributions to the Cicadellidae (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha) in Some Parts of Khuzestan Province
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Archive of SID nd Proceedings of 22 Iranian Plant Protection Congress, 27-30 August 2016 438 College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Karaj, IRAN Contributions to the Cicadellidae (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha) in some parts of Khuzestan Province Farzad Pakarpour Rayeni1 , Michael R. Wilson2 1- Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz 2- Department of Natural Sciences, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, UK. [email protected] Based on the number of described species, Cicadellidae, commonly called leafhoppers, is the largest family of the suborder Auchenorrhyncha approximately 20,000 described species. They can readily be recognized from other members of the Auchenorrhyncha by the presence of one or more rows of spines in their hind tibiae. Leafhopper species have small size and feed on a wide variety of vascular plant species and injure their host plants either directly, through feeding which can damage plant tissue and rob the plant of essential nutrients, or indirectly, through the transmission of plant pathogens particularly viruses and phytoplasmas. A faunal study of leafhoppers was conducted in three parts of Khuzestan Province (southwest of Iran) with different climatic conditions consist: Ahvaz, Bagh-e-Malek and Dezful, during 2013 and 2016. Materials were collected by using sweeping net and Malaise trap. A few species have been trapped by aspirator and sticky yellow trap. Morphological identifications were carried out by using reliable keys and original descriptions. As a result, 88 species belonging to 48 genera and 7 subfamilies were found and identified, out of which 46 species are reported from Khuzestan Province for the first time and 6 species (indicated by an asterisk) are newly records for Iranian leafhoppers fauna. The confirmation for all species was done by the second author (Michael R. Wilson). The specimens were deposited in Jalal Afshar Zoological Museum at University of Tehran. The list of new records for Khuzestan Province and Iran as follow: Cicadellidae: Aphrodinae: Aphrodes bicincta (Schrank). Deltocephalinae: Athysanini: Euscelis alsius Ribaut; Euscelis incisus (Kirschbaum); Euscelis lineolatus Brullé; Hardya iranicola Zachvatkin; Platymetopius coronatus Dlabola; Platymetopius exalbescens Dlabola; Platymetopius rostratus (Herrich-Schäffer); Platymetopius shirazicus Dlabola. Chiasmini: Exitianus indicus (Distant). Cicadulini: Cicadula lineatopunctata (Matsumura); Elymana sulphurella (Zetterstedt); Mocydiopsis parvicauda Ribaut; Proceps acicularis Mulsant et Rey. Deltocephalini: Maiestas trifasciata (Lindberg). Eupelicini: Paradorydium breviceps (Melichar); Paradorydium lanceolatum (Burmeister)*; Paradorydium paradoxum (Herrich-Schäffer). Fieberiellini: Fieberiella florii (Stål); Fieberiella macchiae Linnavuori. Goniagnathini: Goniagnathus brevis (Herrich-Schäffer). Hecalini: Hecalus eximius (Kirschbaum); Hecalus prasinus (Matsumura)*. Macrostelini: Balclutha rhenana Wagner; Cicadulina mbila (Naudé). Opsiini: Hishimonus phycitis (Distant); Neoaliturus alboflavovittatus (Lindberg); Neoaliturus pulcher (Haupt); Neoaliturus fenestratus (Herrich- Schäffer); Neoaliturus guttulatus (Kirschbaum); Neoaliturus dubiosus (Matsumura). Paralimnini: Psammotettix emarginatus Singh*. Penthimiini: Penthimia nigra (Goeze). Phlepsiini: Phlepsius intricatus (Herrich-Schäffer); Phlepsius kambysesi Dlabola. Scaphoideini: Grammacephalus genoicus Dlabola; Grammacephalus pallidus (Linnavuori)*; Grammacephalus pugio (Noualhier); Neolimnus egyptiacus (Matsumura); Doratulina lahorensis (Distant); Doratulina pallida Dlabola. Macropsinae: Macropsis graminea (Fabricius). Megophthalminae: Agalliini: Anaceratagallia aciculata (Horváth); Anaceratagallia laevis (Ribaut); Anaceratagallia venosa (Fourcroy). Typhlocybinae: Empoascini: Asymmetrasca decedens (Paoli). Erythroneurini: Arboridia kermanshah (Dlabola); Helionidia biplagiata (Haupt); Helionidia punctulata (Ramakrishnan et Menon)*. Typhlocybini: Eupteryx pavlovskii Zachvatkin; Eupteryx kaghanensis Ahmed*; Zyginella pulchra Löw. Keywords: faunal study, newly record, Ahvaz, Bagh-e-Malek, Dezful. www.SID.ir .